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A Sense of the World
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ABSTRACT
A team of leading contributors from both philosophical and literary backgrounds have been brought together in this impressive book to examine how works of literary fiction can be a source of knowledge. Together, they analyze the important trends in this current popular debate.
The innovative feature of this volume is that it mixes work by literary theorists and scholars with work of analytic philosophers that combined together provide a comprehensive statement of the variety of ways in which works of fiction can engage questions of worldly interest. It uses the problem of cognitive value to explore:
- literature’s contribution to ethical life
- literature’s ability to engage in social and political critique
- the role narrative plays in opening up possibilities of moral, aesthetic, experience and selfhood
This remarkable volume will attract the attention of both literature and philosophy scholars with its statement of the various ways that literature and life take an interest in one another.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 1|9 pages
Introduction: the prospects of literary cognitivism: John Gibson
part |1 pages
PART I Knowledge through literary fiction
chapter 2|11 pages
Learning from literature: Peter Lamarque
chapter 4|12 pages
The laboratory of the mind: Catherine Z. Elgin
chapter 5|12 pages
‘‘How Could You?’’: deeper understanding through fiction
chapter 6|22 pages
Aharon Appelfeld and the problem of Holocaust fiction
chapter 8|15 pages
Lewis Carroll: fugitive from reality?: A. D. Nuttall
part |1 pages
PART II Narrating worlds and selves
chapter 9|17 pages
Philosophy as/and/of literature: Arthur C. Danto
chapter 10|13 pages
The ends of narrative: Richard Eldridge
chapter 11|16 pages
Narrative catharsis: Garry L. Hagberg
chapter 12|22 pages
Postmodern narratives of the past: Simon Schama: Lubomír Doležel
chapter 13|17 pages
En Abyme: Internal models and cognitive mapping: Brian Mchale
chapter 14|10 pages
Traveling stories: Knowledge, activism, and the humanities: Linda Hutcheon
part |1 pages
PART III The poetic, the dramatic, and the real
chapter 15|14 pages
Poetry and cognition: Eileen John
chapter 16|13 pages
Why read literature? The cognitive function of form
part |1 pages
PART IV Imagination, objectivity, and culture